[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre autographe signée par Peter F. Jaillet Milledgeville, 18 avril 1825 2 pp. 1/2 in-4, adresse au verso du second feuillet (“Paid General Lafayette Boston. Massachusetts mail")
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EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. CHALEUREUSE LETTRE REMERCIANT LAFAYETTE ET LEVASSEUR DE LEUR VISITE DANS “OUR MASONIC TEMPLES & SANCTUARIES" “We wish to deposit then in the Archives & sacred deposits of our Chapter & Lodges to serve as a memento of the honor you & your highly esteemed companions have done us in gracing by your presence, our Masonic Temples & Sanctuaries" Lafayette had visited Milledgeville earlier that month, on March 27, establishing an especial rapport. Milledgevile was the capital of the state of Georgia : “We arrived on the 2d of March, on the banks of little river Oconee, near to which Milledgeville, the capital of Georgia, is built. This town, which, from the dispersion of its houses, and the multitude and extent of its beautiful gardens, rather resembles a fine village than a city, containing a population of two thousand five hundred souls, among whom General Lafayette was received as a father and friend... After the official presentation in the state house, where the general was addressed by an American citizen of French descent, Mr Jaillet, mayor of Milledgeville ; after the visit which we made to the lodge of our masonic brethren, and the review of all the militia of the county, we dined with Governor Troup... Affected almost to tears with the kindness evinced towards him, the general completely forgot that Georgia was a new acquaintance" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II. p. 67).
